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Hello hello! So I'm trying to broaden my culinary horizon right now, things have gotten a bit stale since I have a mild case of ARFID and tend to fall back on safe foods (protein bars, fruit pureΓ©s, burritos) when I don't keep an eye on my diet. Ideally I'm looking for something that's healthy and reqires little prep. And it should be obtainable in Germany. But if the title speaks to you in any other way I'm interested to hear your thoughts anyway.

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[–] SoyaSuki@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 hours ago

Millet, Spelt, Cranola, ....
There's many grains you can put in pillows πŸ›Œ. Although you generally use the chaff.

[–] plantmoretrees@lemm.ee 3 points 6 hours ago

Fucking trust me on this - roasted radishes.

Try it and thank me later.

[–] aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 7 hours ago

what food item area people sleeping on

I sleep on a mattress, actually.

[–] Wahots@pawb.social 3 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

I've really been enjoying chia seeds recently. They are great in smoothies. Spinach too, it's essentially undetectable so you can just add a handful of either. Works great in any type of smoothie, and feels like "dessert" even when it's just fruits and veggies and seeds. Plus, you can freeze (or buy) frozen produce, or freeze what you can't eat, so it keeps for ages.

Unflavored yogurt tends to work best, imo.

[–] JennyLaFae@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Charcuterie plates

Cold cuts, cheeses, fresh/dried fruit, vegetables/pickled vegetables, bread/crackers, etc.

Make whatever plate combination you're in the mood for from a variety selection, i like to stock about 3 options from each category to feel like I have choices

[–] Lazhward@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Girl dinner is trending if anything, not exactly being slept on.

[–] JennyLaFae@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 5 hours ago

Fair πŸ˜‚ I focused on easy/low prep and availability in Germany which brought me to the german deli/bakery I used to go.

[–] blackbrook@mander.xyz 6 points 10 hours ago

How do you feel about oatmeal? It's healthy and has much more potential for adding flavors to than most people ever consider. It's pretty neutral and makes a good canvas for other flavors.

For example, you can add cheese to make something like a healthier Mac and cheese. The starch makes it sort of creamy.

But you might want to upgrade from rolled oats to steel cut oats. You get much more "tooth" to your oatmeal and not just mush. Unless the mush is what you like. You can also use whole oats for even more "tooth".

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 7 points 12 hours ago

Sumac. Put that shit on your winter baked potatos peeps, you're welcome

[–] Eagle0110@lemmy.world 0 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Edible insects! They yummy!!! πŸ˜‹πŸ˜‹πŸ˜‹

And there are many established culinary practices for cooking them from vastly different cultures, so there's also a good variety of recipes you can find and try out!

[–] phantomwise@lemmy.ml 7 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Rice cooker saved my life. I add whatever I have lying around that doesn't require cooking like ham, pickles, canned veggies or fruits, fresh or dried fruits, etc, and if I'm feeling fancy I might boil eggs. Plus mushroom sauce, oyster sauce, fish sauce, or soy sauce. If you can find black rice in asian supermarkets it's even better.

[–] xorollo@leminal.space 1 points 9 hours ago

Do r our food in your bed. It will be gross, and be very uncomfortable for sleeping.

[–] RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 12 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

Spices! Smoked paprika, curry sauce and spices, turmeric, southwest seasoning, garlic everything!

[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 6 points 16 hours ago

Gochujang paste - Korean fermented red pepper paste. It has a really tasty, slightly spicy flavor, that tastes great in soup/ ramen or coating noddles/pasta.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 5 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Rule of thumb: whatever amount of a spice a recipe calls for, double it.

[–] RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 3 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I did that once with bay leaves, that soup was...so mildly off.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 3 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I have absolutely no idea what difference bay leaves make. I keep putting them in things, mainly due to blind allegiance to the recipe, but if you put a gun to my head and demanded that I describe the taste you'd just have to shoot me 'cause I wouldn't be able to it.

(The fact that the leaves are too tough to eat by themselves to understand their flavor doesn't help either. Maybe I should try grinding one into a fine powder or something.)

[–] RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago

In normal amounts, they add a sort of pleasing background note. They mostly help other seasonings feel more rounded.

When placing a bunch in, it tastes...off. Bad? Strong in a bad way. Overwhelming other tastes.

[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 3 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

Another post, another horse

[–] ExperimentalGuy@programming.dev 32 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

Any type of bean. You can make dips, chili, put them in rice, and they are really healthy.

[–] Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 12 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I love beans! The burritos I make usually contain some baked tofu and onions, brown rice and refried as well as whole beans. They're like at least 70% bean πŸ˜„ Best way to get some protein in when you prefer plant based foods.

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[–] cattywampas@lemm.ee 18 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Rutabaga. It's a root vegetable that you cook similar to parsnips or turnips. A bit of a nutty, earthy flavor. Really good mashed with a splash of cream and a grating of fresh nutmeg.

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[–] mybuttnolie@sopuli.xyz 3 points 15 hours ago

Green beans!

[–] JoeBidet@lemmy.ml 9 points 19 hours ago

lentils! chick peas! beans! legumes in general, they are great! you can integrate them into anything...

(ie. cook a bunch of lentils to eat warm with whatever veggies you can steam... but leftovers the next day are turned into a salad, etc. )

[–] Termight@lemmy.ml 9 points 20 hours ago

For a healthy and affordable diet: beans, rice, bread, collards, kale, mackerel, salmon, sardines, raisins, oatmeal, almonds, and chicken.

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 26 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Nutritional yeast, aka flake yeast.

Intense flavor, goes with damm near anything parmesan goes with, and things it doesn't. It's fairly cheap, lasts ages when stored decently, and it packs a nutritional punch.

People like to talk about how umami's spread as a specific flavor into awareness in the west was a massive shift. But a lot of people got locked into the soy and fish sauce focus that was the first thing that western tastes became familiar with as umami. Even when folks are aware of other things, they still tend to think in terms of sauces and complex recipes for pastes and fermented products. But good old yeast is right there, cranking out a deep and rich flavor.

So it gets slept on pretty hard. It doesn't help that it isn't marketed well. A lot of people that have heard of it think it's more along the lines of a vitamin you take on its own, or lump it in with woowoo nutrition in places where it's called nutritional yeast.

One of my favourite things that really focus on it as a major flavor component is roasted cauliflower. You mix it with the spice blend, and toss it in a bowl, and it opens up with that rich, heady scent that yeast has. I don't measure for it, it's just dumping a bit of garlic and onion powders, salt & pepper, then some paprika. Then maybe two to three tablespoons of the yeast. It's mouth watering, just the smell. Fuck, my mouth is watering thinking of it.

You get that amazing caramelized flavor from the roasting, that delicate floral note that some cauliflower has, the slightly sulfuric tang too. Then the spices lift those, and the yeast ties it all together and becomes greater than the sum of its parts.

[–] RBWells@lemmy.world 4 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I like it on corn. Cheese grits with cheddar & nutritional yeast; on popcorn OMG like it better than Parmesan (and I say this as a woman fascinated by cheese) and on corn on the cob.

I do not like it on tofu as sub for scrambled eggs. Nope. Mostly use it for grits and popcorn.

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 hours ago

Oh, heck yeah! Elotes en vaso especially. It still needs the cotija or parm, but the yeast bumps it up.

Grits are the same; still needs actual cheese, but the yeast amplifies it. Popcorn, it can just go straight on!

[–] communism@lemmy.ml 8 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

Nutritional yeast is great for scrambled tofu. You can of course season scrambled tofu however you like, but for one block of tofu (quite forgiving in terms of quantities, I think this will work well for anywhere between 200g to 400g of firm or extra-firm tofu):

  • Generous bunch of nutritional yeast. Like a good pinch between all of your fingertips.
  • 1 tsp ground cumin
  • 1/4 tsp ground turmeric
  • 1/4 tsp ground black pepper (you can up it to 1/2 tsp if you prefer; I used to do 1/2 tsp then I think I got oversensitive to it so halved it)
  • sprinkle of salt
  • Add dried parsley at the end as a garnish

Keep in mind I don't make any attempt to make mine taste like eggs. If you want scrambled tofu as an egg substitute then you could leave out the cumin (which gives it a more curry flavour) and add stuff like garlic powder, onion powder, and black rock salt at the end (add black rock salt at the very end when it's off the heat, otherwise it will lose its eggy flavour). But personally I prefer a more curry flavour than an eggy flavour!

Nutritional yeast also works well to top avocado toast with. I do toasted sourdough, smashed avocado mixed with lemon juice, nutritional yeast sprinkled on top, then toasted sesame seeds sprinkled on top of that.

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[–] kalpol@lemm.ee 8 points 19 hours ago

Soups. Find Cooks Illustrated Best Soups cookbook. Learn to make and can your own broth. It doesn't change everything but it changes a lot.

[–] agent_nycto@lemmy.world 50 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Take vegetable. Saute with olive oil, a little salt, and some seasoning. Vegetables taste amazing and people just don't eat enough of them, and I think it's because they don't cook them right.

[–] communism@lemmy.ml 6 points 21 hours ago

I personally love roast veggies. The issue with eg stir fried or sautΓ©ed vegetables, for me at least, is that they don't microwave well because for both stir fry and sautΓ©ed veggies, part of the appeal is some crunch that remains in veggies like broccoli, carrots, baby sweetcorn, etc. But microwaving them to reheat just makes them go mushy. With roast veggies, they are quite soft anyway, so as long as you are not going for a crispy exterior they will microwave well.

I guess that's one of my big issues with vegetables, is that I feel I usually have to cook them fresh. Otherwise the texture is not nice to me if I cook a lot of veggies to reheat over the next few days.

For roast veggies: olive oil and whole cloves of garlic with the skin on. You can smash them to release more flavour, but that also makes it more likely that the garlic will burn, which is a shame because roast garlic makes for a delicious garlic-flavoured spread on toast. Add whatever seasoning you like; I go with rosemary and then whatever spices on my spice rack look good.

[–] MrVilliam@lemm.ee 20 points 1 day ago

Piggybacking this comment because similar:

Chop up some veggies (I like zucchini, yellow squash, onions, and maybe carrots), toss them in olive oil, salt, some seasoning, and an acid like lemon juice or wine (or a little balsamic vinegar if you want that vibe), then throw it into a lubed pan and into a preheated oven until roasted to your liking (probably like 15-20 minutes at 400Β°F).

I like this method because it's largely passive, so this can happen while you deal with some other part of your meal. Sauce, meat, rice, whatever. Plus it's pretty hard to fuck up unless you forget to use a timer lol.

[–] cram42@mander.xyz 7 points 20 hours ago

Cotton sheets here. So, I guess the food I'm sleeping on is long sugar chains?

[–] jo3rn@discuss.tchncs.de 28 points 1 day ago (10 children)

Since you're talking about Germany: Tofu has been unfairly demonized here (maybe because it can serve as a meat substitute).

It is a great source of nutrients and protein. It can be prepared in many different ways. It is environmentally friendly, can be conveniently stored and has a relatively long shelf life.

[–] kwedd@feddit.nl 2 points 8 hours ago

I could take or leave tofu, but I really like tempeh.

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[–] dihutenosa@lemm.ee 37 points 1 day ago (4 children)

My bed, normally, with a rare nap on the couch. Why would anyone sleep on food?

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[–] Xaphanos@lemmy.world 10 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

My son has ARFID. He's 15. It's really hard. He's seeing a therapist. But he's still seriously underweight. I don't have any food recommendations, but I do wish you the best with your progress.

[–] Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 8 points 23 hours ago

I'm sorry to hear that. It often gets much better with age though! I'm 29 now and I can eat most stuff without feeling any aversion. It's more that I prefer my safe foods but I can thoroughly enjoy other meals too. Cooking can still be tricky sometimes but I don't let that ruin my diet. I hope your son can find a calorie-dense safe food. My go to in that regard are almonds, cashews, peanuts, pumpkin seeds and if all else fails gummy bears.

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